Governing Quotes

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

— Ian Hacking

Campaigning is different from governing.

— Barack Obama

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

— Scott McClellan

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

— Ferdinand Foch

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

Governing has always been hard.

— Pete Hoekstra

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We will not let bureaucracy stand in the way of governing.

— Chris Sununu

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

— Barack Obama

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

— Indira Gandhi

Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.

— Steven Redhead

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

— M. E. Lazarus

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

— Joseph Campbell

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

— Oren Lyons

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

— Katherine Neville

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

— William Greider

“Society would govern itself spontaneously if it didn't contain sensitive and intelligent people. You can be sure that they're the only thing…

— Fernando Pessoa

To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the…

— Barack Obama

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out…

— Juan Williams

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say,…

— Vicente Fox

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like…

— Rona Ambrose

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that…

— Robert Ballard

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I…

— Che Guevara

The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of…

— John Jortin

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile…

— Paul Brooks

You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because…

— Simon Romero

With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year,…

— Frederick Lenz

Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory…

— Simon Romero

I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four…

— Nina Conti

Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing…

— Paul Ryan

I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these…

— Richard A. Falk

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form…

— George Washington

A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they…

— Hillary Clinton

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical…

— Franz Joseph Gall

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is…

— H. P. Blavatsky

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises…

— David Berlinski

Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every…

— Laozi

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy